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A SHOP owner and his wife battled with masked raiders in the early hours this week by “bombing” them with window boxes. The raiders used a hammer to smash the window of the Deep Clothing Company in New Street, Henley, and, despite the couple’s bravery, escaped with clothing worth more than £4,000. Owner Alex Lakatos said: “It was more like a Wild West frontier town than Henley.”

Matthew Pinsent’s Sydney Olympic gold medal was reportedly stolen last Friday as he sat having a coffee with his girlfriend at Heathrow airport. It was returned hours later by a taxi driver who told police it had been handed to him in a moleskin bag at traffic lights as he left the airport.